How to Become a Game Developer in 9 Steps

Start a new career with this training bundle.

Sep 12, 2017

Everyone loves a good game. You may have even dabbled with the idea of creating your very own game and becoming a full-time game developer.

It's a common misconception that in order to create top-selling games, one must already be a computer whiz. In fact, easy-to-access resources such as the 2017 Zero to Hero Game Developer Bundle can give you all the tools you need to become a master game developer, regardless of your current level of experience, and the entire bundle is currently priced down to just $50—that's over 95 percent off.

Each of the nine courses in this bundle walks you through a different industry-standard tool of the trade to become a successful game developer.

1. First you'll learn Unity and C#—two time-tested staples of game development—by creating your very own 3D multi-level platform game. You'll learn about both Unity and C# from scratch, tackling intricate concepts like vector math, Object-Oriented Programming, working with materials, and much more. You'll even dive into Canvas UI (the root component for rendering all UI objects in Unity), and Blender.

2. Next up, you'll learn how to build a first person shooter game by creating unique and personalized versions of top-selling games like Doom and Call of Duty. These types of games utilize arguably the most popular format of all time, and knowing how to create engaging and entertaining first person shooter scenarios will give you an undeniable leg up in your future gaming career. This course takes the skills you established in your introduction to Unity and builds on them by introducing you to things like collision detection, enemy path finding AI, and external models and audio files.

3. With a firm grasp of Unity under your belt, you'll move on to creating Minecraft-like 3D games with MagicaVoxel—a powerful and exciting free tool used in creating 3D game models across the industry. Start by building simple game models and environments before moving on to create more complex and dynamic 3D game assets. You'll even start an in-depth exploration of camera controls and scene navigations.

4. The Blender for Non-Artistscourse then teaches you how to create beautiful, low-poly game assets and how to import them into Unity for rendering. This is where your creativity really starts to shine, as you create lots of beautiful 3D game assets that will bring your gaming ideas to life. Discover normals, materials, texturing, UV unwrapping, and more.

5. Then, you'll dig back into your newly acquired Unity tool box to master more complex Unity 3D functions in order to build advanced games. Learn more about C#, make 3D cubes, and build entire 2D and 3D games from scratch. When you're done with this module, you'll have the skills you need to explore game physics and pathfinding, manipulate basic artificial intelligence, perform camera animations, and more.

6. Next up, you'll dive into the lucrative world of mobile gaming—learning how to create games for the iPhone and iPad in a beginner-friendly environment that teaches you how to utilize Swift 3. Each lecture in this module will help you build upon the current project by adding one or two more pieces of functionality as you learn new things in a logical progression.

7. No computer science course would be complete without learning a bit of Python, and that's precisely what this next module will teach you. Python, a powerful yet easy-to-use language that's in high demand by practically every major tech company, can help you build unique and exciting games. Learn about essential concepts like variables, functions, conditional statements, and loops, while using the Pygame library to put together your first Python game.

8. From there, you'll build a whopping six games in the famed Unreal Engine. Using practical examples and real-world projects, this course will teach you how to code in C++ and optimise Unreal Engine's many capabilities to create incredible games from scratch.

9. Finally, you'll combine all of your new skills in order to advance from an intermediate-level game developer to an advanced game-making master. Dive into a wide variety of knowledge related to the gaming industry, and become more adaptable and ready to take on any game development challenge you meet.

The sea of knowledge you'll have access to with this course bundle usually costs $1,488, but you can take advantage of everything this batch of valuable courses has to offer for over 95 percent off—just $49—for a limited time.

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